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Jul. 25th, 2011 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyofleithianTook some time to write Mara's portion of Mustafar -- you know, when she confronts Luke about killing the Jedi in the Temple -- while LJ was having some pretty aggravating technical difficulties. (Seriously; I think I was ready to tear my hair out in frustration. :P #Overreacts. XD) *Sighs* I just hope we get a report of what the hell happened -- still, something tells me that the server was probably just being cranky or something. Probably no big deal. :) *Sighs* Anyways, back to Mara.
I kind of have a feeling that even though it's the same situation -- woman confronts husband about killing the younglings -- that Padme and Mara would have different reactions to it. Or at least different takes on it. Padme's quite a forgiving soul, almost to a fault -- which I think Luke inherited from her. (Even if LOTF-FOTJ begs to differ, but then again, considering that Del Rey has not one fucking clue what it's doing anymore, maybe it shouldn't be that big a deal. Will get to those issues shortly) Mara's more decisive and hates weakness -- she's not cruel per se, but she's quite pragmatic. In the original Thrawn trilogy, she was sort of the tough, streetwise girl with a heart of gold -- Zahn just added in the "used to be one of Palpatine's personal assassins" (I say one of because, for those kind of out of it, in her words, the Emperor had more hands than a dianoga had tentacles. Yep, she was awesome back then and still is now -- even if JCF's kind of soured me towards her. #Always goes back to that damn forum, dear God. DX) to give it some extra spice. One of those other Emperor's hands ends up becoming one of the main antagonists of LOTF -- before everything really, really goes to shit.
Am kind of coping a bit more with the whole "compassion is for those who deserve it" thing -- even if trying to characterize Luke and Mara both is giving me fits. They're really hard characters to write, really. I think what enraged me the most about...that thread on JCF was the whole defense of Luke's...arguably moronic statement by saying, "oh, Mace didn't show any compassion to little Anakin when he first came to the Temple." Yeah, so that makes it all better then. /sarcasm. Wasn't the point of the PT to show how the Jedi's lack of compassion -- amongst...other things -- led to their downfall at the hands of Darth Sidious? (Although YMMV on how well they did) Wasn't the point of the ending of ROTJ "Balance to the Force, you're doing it right"? Were they even *watching* the same movies, or were they too busy griping about "they don't make 'em like they used to" with the pT? (Okay, that statement was a little harsh, but let's say that that statement really...touched something unpleasant in me)
I guess that's one reason I've become...slightly protective of Anakin. At the very least why I've started to like him more than Luke. Because I think for all Anakin's flaws, he never would say, "Compassion is for those who deserve it." (Okay, I don't think anyone would really say that -- it's just not human nature, IMHO -- and yet...) If anything, in AOTC, he explicitly says, "Compassion...is essential to a Jedi's life." (Granted, it may or may not have been a veiled come-on at Padme depending on your point of view -- I'll admit I saw that conversation, besides being an interesting look into both the life of a Jedi and Anakin's character, the two of them...well, flirting and loving it, for lack of a better term. :) And true, he may have pulled some...things regarding the Tuskens, Dooku, etc., but at the very least after the dust cleared he had the decency to feel bad he did it. I think if anything, those things were mostly the result of Dooku and Sidious trying to make him break (mostly working off an abandoned/cut concept of Dooku being the one who hired the Tusken Raiders to kidnap and torture Anakin's mother. And since Sidious is Dooku's master...that technically means that Sidious is responsible for the death of Anakin's mother, and the rest of Anakin's fall -- like coercing him into killing all the Jedi at the Temple wasn't bad enough) -- exploiting personality flaws, going after his loved ones, etc. *Sighs* Or maybe I'm reading too much into one stupid line in the EU? After all, I think Luke's had worse Character Derailment...but at the very least, for me, this was kind of the bottom of the barrel. #Is extremely silly sometimes.
Thoughts? Comments?
I kind of have a feeling that even though it's the same situation -- woman confronts husband about killing the younglings -- that Padme and Mara would have different reactions to it. Or at least different takes on it. Padme's quite a forgiving soul, almost to a fault -- which I think Luke inherited from her. (Even if LOTF-FOTJ begs to differ, but then again, considering that Del Rey has not one fucking clue what it's doing anymore, maybe it shouldn't be that big a deal. Will get to those issues shortly) Mara's more decisive and hates weakness -- she's not cruel per se, but she's quite pragmatic. In the original Thrawn trilogy, she was sort of the tough, streetwise girl with a heart of gold -- Zahn just added in the "used to be one of Palpatine's personal assassins" (I say one of because, for those kind of out of it, in her words, the Emperor had more hands than a dianoga had tentacles. Yep, she was awesome back then and still is now -- even if JCF's kind of soured me towards her. #Always goes back to that damn forum, dear God. DX) to give it some extra spice. One of those other Emperor's hands ends up becoming one of the main antagonists of LOTF -- before everything really, really goes to shit.
Am kind of coping a bit more with the whole "compassion is for those who deserve it" thing -- even if trying to characterize Luke and Mara both is giving me fits. They're really hard characters to write, really. I think what enraged me the most about...that thread on JCF was the whole defense of Luke's...arguably moronic statement by saying, "oh, Mace didn't show any compassion to little Anakin when he first came to the Temple." Yeah, so that makes it all better then. /sarcasm. Wasn't the point of the PT to show how the Jedi's lack of compassion -- amongst...other things -- led to their downfall at the hands of Darth Sidious? (Although YMMV on how well they did) Wasn't the point of the ending of ROTJ "Balance to the Force, you're doing it right"? Were they even *watching* the same movies, or were they too busy griping about "they don't make 'em like they used to" with the pT? (Okay, that statement was a little harsh, but let's say that that statement really...touched something unpleasant in me)
I guess that's one reason I've become...slightly protective of Anakin. At the very least why I've started to like him more than Luke. Because I think for all Anakin's flaws, he never would say, "Compassion is for those who deserve it." (Okay, I don't think anyone would really say that -- it's just not human nature, IMHO -- and yet...) If anything, in AOTC, he explicitly says, "Compassion...is essential to a Jedi's life." (Granted, it may or may not have been a veiled come-on at Padme depending on your point of view -- I'll admit I saw that conversation, besides being an interesting look into both the life of a Jedi and Anakin's character, the two of them...well, flirting and loving it, for lack of a better term. :) And true, he may have pulled some...things regarding the Tuskens, Dooku, etc., but at the very least after the dust cleared he had the decency to feel bad he did it. I think if anything, those things were mostly the result of Dooku and Sidious trying to make him break (mostly working off an abandoned/cut concept of Dooku being the one who hired the Tusken Raiders to kidnap and torture Anakin's mother. And since Sidious is Dooku's master...that technically means that Sidious is responsible for the death of Anakin's mother, and the rest of Anakin's fall -- like coercing him into killing all the Jedi at the Temple wasn't bad enough) -- exploiting personality flaws, going after his loved ones, etc. *Sighs* Or maybe I'm reading too much into one stupid line in the EU? After all, I think Luke's had worse Character Derailment...but at the very least, for me, this was kind of the bottom of the barrel. #Is extremely silly sometimes.
Thoughts? Comments?
